I have had a very busy week. The freshmen students arrived on campus yesterday and there was excitement in the air. I love this day on campus. My husband and his brother got the new floor down in the motor home for his mother and it looks great. I have been doing lots of extra walking but the weight is not coming off as easily anymore.
I forgot to post my weight on Tuesday, I weighed 238 lbs. Today is Thursday and I still weigh the same. That’s 79 lbs. down from the day of surgery and 97 down since Christmas.
Tonight I am going to the surgical support group at the weight center. I missed the group meeting last month because I was away on vacation. I am looking forward to going tonight.
This weekend is looking like good weather here in MA. We have a family gathering planned at out house on Sunday. Some of these people we haven’t seen in quite some time. It should be a good time. I have lots to do to get ready for company but I will have plenty of time on Saturday to do what needs to be done.
My mother in law is still visiting. She is very easy company and I am enjoying having her around. Tonight after my support group meeting I am going to meet her and my husband for dinner.
I better get to work…
Daily Inspirational Message
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
August 21, 2008
Today is Thursday and I realized that I didn’t post my weight for the week on Tuesday as I usually do. On Tuesday I weighed 240 lbs. I’m still losing and it feels good.
My mother –in-law arrived this past weekend. We knew that she was going to be coming to Massachusetts, we just didn’t have any details about when, where she was staying, (she had invites from 2 or 3 of her children) or for how long. She lives full time in her motor home and spends a good part of each year driving around the country. Her home base is in Texas.
She left Texas in March and has spent time out in the western part of the country for most of the summer. On Friday night we got a call from her saying that she was in West Virginia and on her way to our house. She expected to arrive on Sunday and she did. She is very easy company to have, she brings her own house! She has dinner with us in the evenings and she is a lovely woman. I’m not sure how long she will be staying with us as she will want to go and stay at her other kids’ homes too. We live about 1 ½ hour drive from the rest of my husband’s siblings. I did hear her say that she was hoping to be back in Texas around Thanksgiving and she wants to stop at Myrtle Beach on the way home. I suppose she could be in the area for sometime.
I took the day off from work on Monday and I took her to the beach and to Foxwoods, we both had a good time and she came home with a little more money than she went with.
My grand daughter Madison came and spent the night last night so she could get a chance to see Bubba. We had a nice dinner and Bubba, Madison and my youngest daughter Allie spent some time in the hot tub before getting ready for bed. Allie and Madison were up and out before 6:30 and off to work/school.
Tonight we are going shopping for some laminate flooring for my mother-in-laws motor home. It’s time to take out the rug and replace it with something easier for her to clean. My husband and his brother are going to work on that Saturday. I am going to take mom out visiting for the day so the two of us are not in the way of the work.
The college where I work is coming back to life as more and more students arrive back on campus. All the freshman students will arrive next week and everyone else will be here next weekend. Everything seems so much more alive with the students here.
My youngest daughter starts her senior year of high school next week; this is hard for me to believe. Where has the time gone? It wasn’t all that long ago when I was sending her off to her first day of kindergarten. She will have a great year, she is involved in Volleyball, basketball and track, lots of other school activities and she has some good classes this year. Still no plans on where she will go to college next year but we will start talking about that soon.
My mother –in-law arrived this past weekend. We knew that she was going to be coming to Massachusetts, we just didn’t have any details about when, where she was staying, (she had invites from 2 or 3 of her children) or for how long. She lives full time in her motor home and spends a good part of each year driving around the country. Her home base is in Texas.
She left Texas in March and has spent time out in the western part of the country for most of the summer. On Friday night we got a call from her saying that she was in West Virginia and on her way to our house. She expected to arrive on Sunday and she did. She is very easy company to have, she brings her own house! She has dinner with us in the evenings and she is a lovely woman. I’m not sure how long she will be staying with us as she will want to go and stay at her other kids’ homes too. We live about 1 ½ hour drive from the rest of my husband’s siblings. I did hear her say that she was hoping to be back in Texas around Thanksgiving and she wants to stop at Myrtle Beach on the way home. I suppose she could be in the area for sometime.
I took the day off from work on Monday and I took her to the beach and to Foxwoods, we both had a good time and she came home with a little more money than she went with.
My grand daughter Madison came and spent the night last night so she could get a chance to see Bubba. We had a nice dinner and Bubba, Madison and my youngest daughter Allie spent some time in the hot tub before getting ready for bed. Allie and Madison were up and out before 6:30 and off to work/school.
Tonight we are going shopping for some laminate flooring for my mother-in-laws motor home. It’s time to take out the rug and replace it with something easier for her to clean. My husband and his brother are going to work on that Saturday. I am going to take mom out visiting for the day so the two of us are not in the way of the work.
The college where I work is coming back to life as more and more students arrive back on campus. All the freshman students will arrive next week and everyone else will be here next weekend. Everything seems so much more alive with the students here.
My youngest daughter starts her senior year of high school next week; this is hard for me to believe. Where has the time gone? It wasn’t all that long ago when I was sending her off to her first day of kindergarten. She will have a great year, she is involved in Volleyball, basketball and track, lots of other school activities and she has some good classes this year. Still no plans on where she will go to college next year but we will start talking about that soon.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Hours away from the weekend
The work week is almost over! Thank Goodness. I am very much looking forward to the weekend. I am even going to take Monday off and make it a long weekend. My mom called and asked if I would like to join her and my sister for a day at the beach. I might change my mind if the weather doesn’t look great for the day but right at the moment the extended forecast looks great!
After work tonight I need to go home and clean up the house a bit, I have company coming for the afternoon tomorrow. A lifelong friend of mine is coming to visit for the afternoon with her husband. I haven’t seen her in over a year and she has never seen our new home. I want it to be neat and clean. I think the biggest challenge in getting things neatened up is my bedroom. I have soooo many clothes. Most of them no longer fit and I need to spend some time trying things on and bagging up what is too big. Then I have a couple of bathrooms to clean, floors to sweep and some food preparation to do. I will save the outside stuff for tomorrow morning.
On Sunday is my nieces 17th birthday. I am going to my mother’s for cake and ice cream on Sunday afternoon for a little while. My husband is going to stay home and do some carpentry work. He took the stairs off one side of our deck. They were very narrow and dangerous steps. He bought all the lumber to make new stairs and then it started raining, it’s been raining since. The weekend weather looks good so maybe he will be able to get out there and work on his projects.
Last week my oldest daughter told me to keep my eyes open for yard sales with children’s clothes. Both kids are in need of fall clothing and she doesn’t have a lot of money to spend. I had to leave work early yesterday for an appointment so I stopped at the Salvation Army thrift store to see what they might have. I found some nice things for both kids. Then I stopped at the Children’s consignment store that I drive by every day, what a place! It was neat and clean, all of the clothes were on racks by size, and everything was clean and in most cases ironed. The prices were about the same as the Salvation Army store. I was able to buy lots of stuff with not a lot of money. I’m sure I will be back there again soon.
My youngest daughter comes home from camp tomorrow. I talked to her on Wednesday and she wasn’t having the best time. I was very surprised! In past years she didn’t want to come home, I would find her and all her friends at the dock hugging and crying because the week was over. This year they had new counselors and lots of changes. She says she probably won’t go back next year. It cost about $650 for the week. For that kind of money you should have a good time.
I work at a college and we are very busy getting ready for the students coming back to campus. Believe it or not some are actually moving in today. School doesn’t start until September 1st and the bulk of the kids move in at the end of the month. We are almost ready for them. I love it when they all come back. It feels like the campus comes back to life after being dormant for the summer. I’m not in any hurry to say good-bye to summer but I’m sure the fall will be good too.
Have a good weekend everyone~
After work tonight I need to go home and clean up the house a bit, I have company coming for the afternoon tomorrow. A lifelong friend of mine is coming to visit for the afternoon with her husband. I haven’t seen her in over a year and she has never seen our new home. I want it to be neat and clean. I think the biggest challenge in getting things neatened up is my bedroom. I have soooo many clothes. Most of them no longer fit and I need to spend some time trying things on and bagging up what is too big. Then I have a couple of bathrooms to clean, floors to sweep and some food preparation to do. I will save the outside stuff for tomorrow morning.
On Sunday is my nieces 17th birthday. I am going to my mother’s for cake and ice cream on Sunday afternoon for a little while. My husband is going to stay home and do some carpentry work. He took the stairs off one side of our deck. They were very narrow and dangerous steps. He bought all the lumber to make new stairs and then it started raining, it’s been raining since. The weekend weather looks good so maybe he will be able to get out there and work on his projects.
Last week my oldest daughter told me to keep my eyes open for yard sales with children’s clothes. Both kids are in need of fall clothing and she doesn’t have a lot of money to spend. I had to leave work early yesterday for an appointment so I stopped at the Salvation Army thrift store to see what they might have. I found some nice things for both kids. Then I stopped at the Children’s consignment store that I drive by every day, what a place! It was neat and clean, all of the clothes were on racks by size, and everything was clean and in most cases ironed. The prices were about the same as the Salvation Army store. I was able to buy lots of stuff with not a lot of money. I’m sure I will be back there again soon.
My youngest daughter comes home from camp tomorrow. I talked to her on Wednesday and she wasn’t having the best time. I was very surprised! In past years she didn’t want to come home, I would find her and all her friends at the dock hugging and crying because the week was over. This year they had new counselors and lots of changes. She says she probably won’t go back next year. It cost about $650 for the week. For that kind of money you should have a good time.
I work at a college and we are very busy getting ready for the students coming back to campus. Believe it or not some are actually moving in today. School doesn’t start until September 1st and the bulk of the kids move in at the end of the month. We are almost ready for them. I love it when they all come back. It feels like the campus comes back to life after being dormant for the summer. I’m not in any hurry to say good-bye to summer but I’m sure the fall will be good too.
Have a good weekend everyone~
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
August 12, 2008
I can't believe it is the middle of August already. I really feel like I have been cheated out of my summer this year. The weather has been cool and rainy. We haven't had any good heat waves or even great beach days for that matter. The weekends have been especially bad. Hopefully things will improve and we will have good weather at the end of summer and early fall.
It is pretty quiet at my house this week, my son moved out and my daughter is away at camp.
After we got home from vacation my son told us that he was going to move out, he has moved in with my niece, her roommate just moved out and she doesn't like living alone. He has agreed to pay 1/2 the rent. I'm not sure how he can afford it but I think that it's a good thing. Maybe this experience will help him grow up a bit.
My daughter is out on an island off the coast of Maine, it's a religious retreat center. 
I am very envious of her. I went to this camp when I was in high school and college, I loved it there. I'm sure she is having a great time.
We had a pretty busy weekend and we had lots of fun. Saturday morning we took a ride out to the campground where our daughter and son-in-law have their new (well, new to them) trailer. What a nice place! They have a great site right next to the playground so they can sit at their own picnic table and watch Madison while she plays. There is a nice lake and good fishing. We brought out our canoe for them to keep there and use for fishing. At 2pm we went to a surprise 70th birthday party for a family friend. It was much more fun that I expected and we stayed there until almost 7pm. As we were driving away from the party My husband said "I think would should take a ride down to Foxwoods (the big casino in CT). So we did. We didn't win any money, as a matter of fact I think we made a pretty good sized donation. We got home about 3am on Sunday morning and we actually watched the Olympics for a little while before going to bed.
Have you been watching the Olympics? We spend some time each evening sitting and watching. Last night we watch the women's volleyball and some of the swimming. Those athletes are amazing!
It's been 17 weeks since my gastric-by-pass surgery. This morning I weighed 243. That's 3 lbs down from last week and 74 since surgery. I am now walking two times a day. I stop at the mall and walk a couple of miles before work and if it's not raining I stop at the outdoor track on the way home and do another mile or two before I drive home. I found my small hand weights and will start working with them sometime this week. I am determined to get under 200 pounds before Christmas. Then I want to stay under 200 for the long haul.
I'll be back to check in again soon. Have a great week!
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Trying to Climb Back up on the Ball
I am back from vacation and trying to climb back up on top of the ball at work. It is not an easy task considering that no one did any of my work while I was away. Lots to do to catch up. At home it’s the same thing, I’m trying to get the laundry done and the trailer unpacked. Tonight I need to stop at the grocery store and re-stock the cupboards.
I was happily surprised to come home to a clean house and a mowed lawn. My son kept the place in good condition. However he didn’t find a job. So now I am on his case to find work and SOON. My husband and I pay his car insurance so we decided that from now until he gets a job he can only use the car from 6am to 6pm to look for work. The car must be parked in the driveway by 6pm for the night. He is not at all happy about this. We are about to see just how painful things have to be for him before he does what he is supposed to. He told us last night that he is moving out very soon. My niece lives in the city with her 5 year old son. She doesn’t like living alone and she could use the help with paying the rent. So all he has to do is get a job and she told him he can come there. I can’t wait. I really think that this is the only way he is going to grow up and learn to take care of himself. He has no idea how good he has it living with us, but he is about to find about.
We had a good time on vacation, it rained most of the first week but we made the most of it. My kids and grandkids were with us for that week. The second week we had lots of sun but not much heat. I walked a lot and picked gallons of blueberries along the road. Spent lots of time on the beach and in the water and in the evenings we played cards or sat by a fire. It was a good camping vacation. The picture is my two daughters and my granddaughter at Storyland in Conway, NH on a very rainy day.
The biggest excitement of the trip besides LOTS of rain was the pumpkin crash. Yes, you read that right. There is a giant pumpkin that you ride in up a hill to Cinderella’s castle. For some unknown reason the driver of the pumpkin drove right off the road into a ditch and the trees. We were asked to get out of the pumpkin and walk the rest of the way up to the castle where we would be interviewed about the crash. At this point we are all getting pretty silly and my two daughters were taking pictures of the pumpkin in the trees. The Storyland staff didn’t like the fact that they were taking pictures and they moved us quickly up
the hill. I will post a few pictures once I get them from one of the kids. I thought for sure they would offer us a free ticket to come back another day or at least a few food coupons but they just wanted our names for insurance purposes and were in a big hurry to get rid of us.
I was happily surprised to come home to a clean house and a mowed lawn. My son kept the place in good condition. However he didn’t find a job. So now I am on his case to find work and SOON. My husband and I pay his car insurance so we decided that from now until he gets a job he can only use the car from 6am to 6pm to look for work. The car must be parked in the driveway by 6pm for the night. He is not at all happy about this. We are about to see just how painful things have to be for him before he does what he is supposed to. He told us last night that he is moving out very soon. My niece lives in the city with her 5 year old son. She doesn’t like living alone and she could use the help with paying the rent. So all he has to do is get a job and she told him he can come there. I can’t wait. I really think that this is the only way he is going to grow up and learn to take care of himself. He has no idea how good he has it living with us, but he is about to find about.
We had a good time on vacation, it rained most of the first week but we made the most of it. My kids and grandkids were with us for that week. The second week we had lots of sun but not much heat. I walked a lot and picked gallons of blueberries along the road. Spent lots of time on the beach and in the water and in the evenings we played cards or sat by a fire. It was a good camping vacation. The picture is my two daughters and my granddaughter at Storyland in Conway, NH on a very rainy day.
The biggest excitement of the trip besides LOTS of rain was the pumpkin crash. Yes, you read that right. There is a giant pumpkin that you ride in up a hill to Cinderella’s castle. For some unknown reason the driver of the pumpkin drove right off the road into a ditch and the trees. We were asked to get out of the pumpkin and walk the rest of the way up to the castle where we would be interviewed about the crash. At this point we are all getting pretty silly and my two daughters were taking pictures of the pumpkin in the trees. The Storyland staff didn’t like the fact that they were taking pictures and they moved us quickly up
the hill. I will post a few pictures once I get them from one of the kids. I thought for sure they would offer us a free ticket to come back another day or at least a few food coupons but they just wanted our names for insurance purposes and were in a big hurry to get rid of us.
This picture is my mom, both daughters and my granddaughter.
I am glad to be back home and I am getting back into the swing of things at work. I thought for sure I would have gained weight on vacation because I didn’t make good choices a lot of the time. However, I think all the walking I did paid off. I actually lost weight on vacation. I am down to 246 lbs. that’s 71 lbs. since April 15th. My next goal is to start working with some weights and doing some toning. It’s time for that.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
